Juanjo Guarnido

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Juanjo Guarnido

Born	January 1, 1967 (age 40) Granada, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	artist
Notable works	Blacksad series
Awards	full list

Juanjo Guarnido (born January 1, 1967) is a Spanish illustrator and the co-author of the French comic book series Blacksad.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Awards
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Guarnido was born in Granada, Spain. He studied painting at the art school of Granada. He collaborated on several fanzines and produced work for Marvel comics. Unfortunately, the small size of the Spanish market forced him to turn to other means of earning a living. In 1990, he left Granada and moved to Madrid where he worked on a TV series for three years. There he met Juan Diaz Canales, with whom he discussed producing comics. In 1993, Guarnido applied for a job with the Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil, France and consequently moved to Paris. He was the lead animator for the character Sabor in the Disney film Tarzan.

After Guarnido left Disney, he reconnected with Canales. Guarnido and Canales contacted several editors and finally signed on with Dargaud, a major comics editor in France. On November 1, 2000, Blacksad: Somewhere within the Shadows was published. It was a success among critics and the public, and won the Prix de la Découverte at the Sierre International Comics Festival and the "Avenir" Prize at the Lys-lez-Lannoy Festival, respectively in Switzerland and France. In March 2003, Arctic Nation, the second album, was released. It was once again a success, winning the Prize Awarded by the Audience and the Prize for Artwork at the 2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

The third instalment of the Blacksad series, Red Soul, was published in 2005, concluding the trilogy which in 2006 went on to win the Angoulême Festival Prize for a Series.